Monday, April 27, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

It occured to me that ZDS were big when I found a record sleeve for this record mislaid at Mondo. What a coincidink!

I used to travel, paint, steal and spin with Lucas Hunter back in the glory years of Sheffield. Yes indeed; when the Arctics were mere chimps, Gatecrasher was keeping the KetaGeeks entertained and the best parties took place in an ice-rink, Luke and I were trying to carve out our likenesses in the Sheffield Rushmore hall-of-fame.

Good times were had, but names were not made. Luke slipped down the M1 to London, worked really hard for nothing for ages, got some residencies here and there and blew up. I bounced to Barna, homeboy to Berlin. We may have deviated in musical paths, but I still consider Luke and Nathanial Self, as Zombie Disco Squad, to be true leaders of a tremendous throwdown.

I put the Plat du Jour questions to Lucas for the benefit of our loyal readership.

1. What's your current favourite record?

There is a shedload, but at the moment I am loving Congaloid by Solo, its on the flip of our Dirtybird release. Solo is king of the grooves, proper dance music.

2. What is the ultimate end-of-night track?

It used to be Dont you forget about me but I doubt I could get away with that shit right now. That track had people on the tables! Nowadays I favour Be by Laidback Luke.

3. Which artist gets ultimate ZDS respect right now?

Franky Rizardo, man is 19 years old and making some crazy tracks, check for Flutetest and Voodoo.

4. What parties are showing the rest how it's done?

We have a residency at Panorama Bar, going there changed my view of everything, it is a life changing place. The atmosphere is amazing, the people are friendly, it has an ice cream parlour and a gay sex room if you are into those type of things.

5. What is your Plat du Jour?

My plate of the day? Bourbon Milkshakes, with a boiled egg with some gold leaf sprinkled on top.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

GLK is slamming it. He's top!Get this...Volume 5As the imagery suggests he was very hairy at one point, this was due to the reason he decided not to cut his hair until he finished his album. Then he finished it and cut his hair. But now it's getting long again. So he must be planning something... Hmmm... If my hair got that long between getting things sorted. JODER!

Plat du Jour favourites Greco Roman are slowly taking over the world...trendy party by trendy party.Always obscure, always in a special venue (think metro stations, boats, warehouses, sewers, ice cream vans...) and always absolutely crazy. The only music policy that these guys have is that anything goes and pretensions must be left at home, along with nu-rave leggings.

Our boy Alex 'Full Nelson' Waldron from Greco Roman has been up to no good again. He is a mouthy, balding Londoner who lives in Berlin but hates techno. His sets are as famous for their glitches as they are for their Sade. He is a genius. Check out his mix of old hip house records "This House Ain't Hip"

Oh, and an oh-so-subtle and shameless tenuous link. Greco Roman records are pimping out all the greats- everyone from Yo Majesty to Drums of Death to David E Sugar to Buraka Som Sistema. Next up for the Greco treatment are Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaur - Plat du Jour's big booking for the May PLAT DU JOUR CARNIVAL SPECIAL!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Raining yesterday, as it was, I decided to go record shopping, as I did. Most people will tell you that La Ruta Natural is the cat's whiskers when it comes to vinyl and service in Barcelona, and I would concur. I stumbled across this EP in the Baltimore section, but it is barely classifiable. In fact, it is barely listenable, if you are anything like the fellow in the video posted on youtube as a preview.

Some people have mates, people they see in the street or on a night out. Then there is the next level, best friends. But then there is the next next level, the type of friendship between Plat du Jour & Desparrame... BLOOD BROTHERS... IN CAHOOTS... THICK AS THEIVES!

Desparrame is a collaboration between K**O & Spanish beat wizards Delorean. We saw them play in Barcelona last week and they are amazing!! The collab of indie beats and bass sees the final product filtering into clubs around Spain and the globe. Club music for the 22nd Century.

They are bringing over Glasgow club legend Jackmaster on Sunday to play a roadblock session at Angels & Kings on the 6th floor of Hotel ME. Jack is responsible for Dress 2 $weat, Numbers, Wireblock and has signed acts like Bulldog & Kazey, Piddy Py, Rustie etc etc. No shit!!

We spoke to Jackmaster, this is the word on the streets of Glasgow...ps. The answer to question 3 leads us on to further business!!

What is your current favourite record?RUSTIE - BAD SCIENCE (WIREBLOCK)

What is the ultimate end of the night track?LIONEL RICHIE - ALL NIGHT LONG

No word of a lie, when we heard Zomby was playing in Barcelona and it wasn't at Plat du Jour a tear rolled down each of our faces. Ominous punched through a wall, C Shell broke a gold earring, Slick Dixx crushed a wine glass and K**O missed a mix (man he must have been angry!).

Huge respect to Nitsa for making it happen and we will see you at the front!! Zomby's "Where were you in '92" is a real classic. Reminds me of the kind of excitement I had when I first heard Burial. You know. That kind of thing!! Musically it's very different but the buzz is there.